a. Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes;
#) a. Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison. Sir T. Browne. --
a. Hostile to priests or the priesthood. Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. dotalis, fr. dos, dotis, dowry: cf. F. dotal. See Dot dowry. ] Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Garth. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. extra- + dotal. ] Forming no part of the dowry;
a. [ L. sacerdotalis, fr. sacerdos, -otis, a priest, fr. sacer holy, sacred: cf. F. sacerdotal. ] Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty;
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs to intellectual superiority. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a sacerdotal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]